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...netoworks - which, after all, are dedicated to overthrowing pro-Western regimes throughout the Arab world - the Arab allies have insisted that Washington provide political cover by intervening more forcefully to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This week's sharp uptick in violence in the West Bank and Gaza may portend trouble for some of the Arab alliance partners if it precedes U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan. But their load is lightened, somewhat, by the fact that the primary form of cooperation the U.S. needs from them is at the intelligence level, which is relatively painless because it occurs outside...
...What does the spy-plane standoff portend for the future of the U.S.-China relationship, and what lessons might both sides take from...
...Does this portend a new form of more aggressive investigative journalism in India...
...they had mechanisms to legally change their head of state. The option they chose, popular uprising, while rousing and probably justified, could portend a troubling future for democracy. If 10 million text messages go out and 1 million protesters take to the streets at every crisis - when the élite become dissatisfied with the direction of the country, or the military feels that the President has lost his or her mandate or the Catholic church views the head of state as immoral - the result is a perfectly healthy, if rambunctious, version of democracy. But if those protests lead to constitutionally...
...shoulders of Hero ride the hopes of all Asian cinema. Did Crouching Tiger's popularity portend a huge global market for Asian movies, or was it a fluke? That uncertainty - and Hero's $30 million budget - has piled pressure on everyone on the set. It's palpable, but rarely mentioned, like the wire propelling an actor through an action sequence that gets computer-erased in the final print...